Bodkin.



L. B. MITCHELL.

BODKIN.v

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 18. wigs.

- Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

LENA BEE MITCHELL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

BODKIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

Application filed December 18, 1915. Serial No. 67,650.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LENA BEE MITCHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bodkins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved bodkin especially adapted for use in threading a cable cord or the like through a casing of dress goods or of a curtain or other similar material, the object of the invention being to provide an improved device of this character which is cheap and simple in construction, and by means of which a cable or other cord may be readily threaded through a casing very expeditiously and with but slight efl'ort.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a perspective view of a cable cord threading bodkin constructed in accordance with my invention showing a cable cord attached thereto and showing the bodkin as in use in threading the cord through a casing.

Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinal sectional view of the bodkin on a larger scale.

Fig. 3 is a detail transverse sectional view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the clamping jar.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a bodkin 1 which is cylindrical in form and is provided with a pointed front end 2 which adapts the bodkin to be readily urged through a casing of dress goods, a curtain or of other material. The bodkin is provided with a bore 3 which is open at the rear end of the bodkin and is adapted for the reception of a cable cord at or other cord, the said bore being provided with inwardly extending prongs 4 at its rear, open end. The bore is open at one side as at 5 and the bodkin is provided at the same side with an opening 6 for the reception of a clamping jaw 7 which is adapted to close against the bodkin and to grip the cord therein so as to eflectuallv grasp the cord and secure its end to the bodkin for threading thereby. The jaw has inwardly extending prongs 8 at its gripping end and is also provided at opposite sides and at points intermediate its ends with lugs 9 which bear on opposite sides of the bodkin and which in connection with a pivot 10 serve to pivotally mount the jaw in the recessed side of the bodkin so that the jaw may be opened and closed as desired, the jaw being provided, forwardly of the lugs 9 with an extension or arm 11. A coil spring 12 is arranged on the pivot 10 and has an arm 13 which bears under the arm 11 of the jaw and holds the jaw normally in closed gripping position, the inner end 14 of the spring being also extended and secured to the inner side of the bodkin at a point near one side of the opening 5.

By first opening the jaw the end of a cable cord or the like may be readily inserted in the bore 3 of the bodkin and then secured by the jaw, the springs normally holding the jaw in closed, grasping condition. It will be understood that the bodkin with the cord arranged thereto may be readily moved through the casing b of dress goods, a curtain or the like, so as to cause the bodkin to thread or dispose the cord in the said casing.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The herein described bodkin for threading a cable cord through goods casings and comprising a hollow cylindrical body pointed at the frontend, having a longitudinal segmental opening in one side extending to the rear end, and said body also having an inturned flange at the rear end; a segmentalclamping jaw arranged to close in said opening and pivotally mounted, the

pivot being arranged at a point intermediate the ends of said jaw, said jaw also having an inturned flange at the rear end, said flanges of the body and jaw having cord engaging prongsat their inner edges, and a spring to normally close said jaw.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LENABEE MITCHELL. Witnesses:

BINGAMAN J.-GoHEN, GEORGE J. GULo'rrA.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

